Question- what do you call a man made belief system that is mutually agreed to as being valid, but has no relationship to real life cause and effect, that is supported, protected, and defended by all, and uses it's own existence as proof of it's validity? That's religion.

We have a fiat currency, the "value' is arbitrarily assigned and has
no intrinsic worth. When the Fed prints more money it is actually
printing debt- as the only value the currency has is derived from the
promise of return over time with interest.

Debt is the promise to return value over time with interest for a
product or service used today. In this case the product is money itself.
Money and debt have become the same thing.

Currency is a mutually agreed to symbol, with a mutually agreed to
value. Currency is a place holder for value, it is not, cannot, will
never be, value itself. Today's currency is based on debt, the promise
of return of value in the future for goods or services received today.
Having no value in and of itself, it borrows value from tomorrow. The
buying power of today's dollar is an arbitrary figure, with no
relationship to real value.

Money is what poor people use to pay for things like the mortgage,
the rent, utilities, food and clothes for the kids. In other words-
we're using debt, to pay for our debt. Wealth, on the other hand is the
acquisition of resources- which have a real value.

The TARPs, the bailouts, all the taxpayer funded welfare being
funneled into banks and insurance companies and the housing market are
being used to artificially support inflated markets. The truth is that
all these institutions are upside down- the debt owed surpasses the real
value in all of them.

In very real terms, if you're fortunate enough not to have been
foreclosed on, you're locked into years of debt in order to pay for a
home that is worth one third to one quarter of it's real value.
Currently the debt surpasses all real value to be had.

This is what happens when supply and demand are removed from the
market place. This is supply-side voodoo economics, in your home and in
your pocket. Value is borrowed from tomorrow until there are not enough
tomorrows.

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It's all made up. And no one knows how to fix it, because it is a
fiction removed from real life criteria of empirical knowledge and not
held to the standards of cause and effect. It is a religion, a mode of
behavior, a mind set.

The problem isn't that there's not enough money. There's lots and
lots of money. It's just that a handful of people are getting all of it,
and they're using it to buy things of real value, passing debt on in
exchange for value today.

The problem is that there's too much debt. Way too much of it.
Remember- the debt is manufactured, a construct of the human mind. When
the Fed prints money it is performing a sorcery- it is taking pieces of
paper and investing those pieces of paper with value. The value is
being magically transported from the future, promises made today that
over time the value not present in the now will be replaced with real
value.

We accept without question that it is normal, fair, right- even
moral- that a person who has enough money can buy resources like oil, or
land or water, and own the rights to such things as energy or food
production. In this case they are trading in those place-holders for
value- which we call money- for things of real value- which we call
resources.

That's a neat trick. "Here, I have this stack of debt, this bundle of
promises, I'll give it to you for the oil under your property. Don't
worry, I'll sell it back to you- piecemeal for a profit." There are many
examples of this sort of double think, this illusory reality, but
consider this one as a prime example of how nonsensical this economy has
become: A credit card is nothing more than a pre-approved loan. It's a
loan you carry in your pocket. If you use it, you enter into debt. If
you don't use it, you are charged a fee for non-use. So you are being
charged for not going into debt. "Here, you can borrow this much money
from me. You don't want to borrow it? Then I'll have to charge you for
not borrowing it""

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Every government on Earth is in debt. Over 7 billion human are also
in debt. That's a LOT of debt. I have read that the combined debt for
all the governments on Earth is estimated to be somewhere between 40
trillion dollars and 65 trillion dollars. These figures do not include
personal debt, which is incalculable as it covers the smallest credit
card use to buy a gallon of milk up to a loan of hundreds of thousands
of dollars for a home or as a start up for a small business.

Let's get some perspective on this number we all bandy about- this thing called a "trillion."

One trillion dollars in new crisp one hundred dollar bills would
occupy about 400,000 cubic feet and would fill over 168 forty foot
shipping containers. If those forty foot shipping containers were to be
placed end to end, the string of those forty foot shipping containers
would extend over 1.27 miles.